APMG Change Management ™ Foundation & Practitioner - Classroom (Exam Included)

The leading Change Management certification for professionals working in organizational change, transition and transformation.

Our Change Management courses, developed in partnership with the Change Management Institute, are designed to help organizations and their people manage the impact of change. They provide techniques to effectively plan and implement successful transformation initiatives.

In the modern business environment, change is relentless. This can be a challenge, but it also presents opportunities. By managing change effectively, organizations can improve their performance and achieve their goals.

Understanding the impact of change is crucial to managing it. Change can create either positive or negative outcomes. It can lead to increased productivity, improved morale and new opportunities, but it can also cause stress, anxiety and resistance.

Our Change Management training explores how change affects and is affected by individuals, teams, change leaders and organizations.

Benefits for individuals

• Understand the human side of change and know how to help people manage change more effectively, maintain their commitment and move them successfully through the change process.
• Understand the different types of change that affect organizations and know how to use different professional approaches to support the effective delivery of the organization's desired outcomes from each change initiative.
• Know how to identify and work with the stakeholders in a change initiative and how to plan, implement and measure the effective communication required to build and sustain their engagement.
• Be able to assess the impact of change, develop effective change teams and recognize and manage resistance to change.
• Understand the process of sustaining change and know how to incorporate a change initiative as the new 'business as usual'.

Benefits for organizations

• Build the organization's ability and capacity to manage change successfully and improve flexibility.
• Increase the likelihood of successful change/transformation of the business - supporting the strategic direction.
• Minimize the risks (costs, delays, loss of employee engagement, reputation) associated with failed initiatives.
• Align change initiatives with established, process-driven methodologies (such as PRINCE2® and other project management methodologies) to develop a consistent approach to change.
• Develop and maintain employee engagement and alignment with organizational purpose during times of change.
• Create and maintain the commitment of internal and external stakeholders to new initiatives.
• Manage more effective change communication with internal and external stakeholders so that the change is understood and supported.
• Improve change impact assessment, integrated change planning and successful embedding of the change in the life of the organization.

APMG accredited change management courses provide individuals with the knowledge, proven methods and techniques to:

• Unlock resistance to change.
• Provide effective support and motivation to individuals and teams to embrace change.
• Use a range of professional methods to implement change in a smooth and effective way.
• Identify and engage with key stakeholders throughout the change process to gain support.
• accelerate the implementation of change programs
• Highlight their contribution as change experts to initiatives.

Techniques and tools discussed in the course, such as how to lead change and involve those affected by it, and effective communication strategies, can help organizations manage change and reap the benefits. These qualifications also offer a route to independent accreditation by the Change Management Institute.